‘We’re Very Glad You Asked That Question, The Answer Is Simple And Straightforward …’

Oh plumbobs … now you’re asking!

There’s several worlds which have appeared in Raiders of the Lost Island Consignment Shop to date.

Here’s the list of where and when, from start to finish:

(In the case of all EA worlds below used – except where noted – we recommend strongly swapping them out for EllaCharmed’s series of rerouted and deborked versions)

For all the custom worlds, links are provided except in two cases (explanations given).

Twinbrook: Parts 1 to 5, 10, 17 to 18.

Bridgeport: Part 6 to 7.

Once Upon An Isle (Rflong7/13): Part 7 to 9 and 17

Once Upon An Isle was specifically built for story telling and legacy players needing to have multiple environments.

Lonely Island (Rflong7/13): Part 9 to 10.

Lunar Lakes: Part 11.

Lost Island (Richdre): Part 11 to 12 and 24.

When Richdre left the Simming world, he said anyone could upload his worlds as he no longer cared.

Sims Asylum (the successor to the imploded Crazy Town after The Isz went Napoleon XIV and Twallan fucked off to host his mods without having to rely ever again on any more egomaniac forum owners after already being burned by TJ at The Simmers Club …) uploaded all of his worlds (whether they are still up is another matter), but as you have to join just to see what’s available, f**k ’em.

We think we were just about the only ones who had a mega soft soft for Richdre’s Lost Island – and we still do. If anyone wants a copy of it or the ‘successor’ Lost Island II (you don’t!), we are happy to oblige if asked.

Niua Simoa [Pasimfic Empire] (Kiwi Tea/Tea_and_Blues): Part 13 to 14

(Note: the same file is up on the EA forum as at Mod The Sims).

Champs Les Sims: Part 18 to 22.

Except this is the version by Stw402 for those wanting to play it as a base game. Dashed handy! Just add your own dogs with rabies for authenticity.

World creators please note that although this is a large 2048 by 2048 world, there’s only 39 commercial lots and 44 residential. There’s a lesson there from those who built the game and learned the hard way what it could take.

Moonlight Falls: Part 19 to 21, 23 to 47.

‘Wickery Glen’ (Heaven Sims): Part 47 to 68

Heaven Sims ‘Wickery Glen’ is a depopulated bootleg of Moonlight Falls with the routing and other EA bumnuggetry fixed to make it run faster- rather ironic considering her later Greymont Bay nightmare!

Hidden Springs: Part 69 only.

(Yes, including the tunnel Taffer Chelsea Sporks walked down).

Appaloosa Plains: Part 73 to 75

(Yes, including the underground bunker in LiveByBook’s backgarden)

Part 4 in ‘Haidenspecksberg, Suid Effrika’ and ‘Teapotia’ used Appaloosa Plains as a ‘set’.

Boroughsburg (Potato BalladSims/Jje10001): Part 76 to 77, 81, 93 and 94

A passing nod to The Llama Lies Down On Broadway story completed a few months earlier with Part 76‘s title ‘Broadway Malady Of 2009’.

Had to let PBS’s masterpiece get a nod in, but The Llama … was our real love letter to this magnificent Sims 3 world – the CAWbuster against which all other urban Simming worlds will be judged against forevermore.

Note differences in the mayor’s office – no banners from Rflong7/13, Nilxis or Norn, Jix is still to ‘earn’ these at this point… Llama was of course based years in Jix and the others’ futures. Also of course no Open Cup recently won by the local Badford Avenue Park soccer club.

You will however see Allesmere’s picture is up, another of our long running gags.

Picaroon Island (Rflong7/13): Part 78 to Part 94.

A small island worth its weight in gold for story telling or legacies.

We did use a ‘set’ for the part where the World Explorers were having their terse video conference call with Jix2993 and Tygercat and later with the renegade Jazzers, but it was on the place Picaroon Court normally sits.

As with Boroughsburg, we made one ‘site’ friendly so if any of the characters looked out of the window they would see exactly what they were ‘supposed’ to from that height and angle.

Great Southern Land (Frogprincess_q): Part 87, 89 and 96.

G’day, sport! It did the job required. Froggie has long vanished from the Simming community and this remains a Beta.

Isla Paradiso: Part 92 to 95

Used when Kirry is briefing the others about the Tapuwhai’s smuggling yachts, then for the ‘at sea’ sequences.

We build a boat set for the Superyacht shell to sit on for screenies of it sailing about, then junked it and switched to what we’d built underneath for the renegades interactions with everyone else. Trust us when we say that shell was more trouble than it was worth (it consisted of two pieces that were so fiddly to put together, you’d have wished for in-game tweezers …)

There was a store room full of treasures – took screenies, then changed our minds and never used them … yet.

Moryrie’s ship was on an entirely different boat made specifically so we could use it for any other adventures as well later. The shell was MsPoodle’s conversion of the Glitterturd’s pirate ship, but the main sail came from elsewhere.

That was the first time either of us had ever saw the kraken in game, so decided it deserved some dialogue of its own.

Simbourne (King_of_Simcity7/Smoogie): Part 96 only.

Due to this lagfest’s crashing tendencies, we will not link to it. Crashing the yacht into the pier was a good laugh. Five crashes of the game when trying to do screenshots not so much.

Raycaster Falls (Damienf519): Part 97

For the roads heading to Cladbridge-on-Stowe and elsewhere. Anyone familiar with the British Isles will be familiar with these kind of scenes on British rural roads, winding through expanses of green with smatterings of trees (due to the predations of agriculture and Dutch Elm disease which completely transformed the landscape) and hills everywhere you turn.

All we had to do was stick in a few obligatory British looking road signs for job done. Of course, Simmies still drive their cars on the wrong side of the road, but you can’t have everything can you?!

Cladbridge-on-Stowe (Doublemedion694): Part 97 only

Would have loved to have done longer in here, this world is the perfect facsimile of a rural English market town. There’s even a full golf course laid out.

Glendonnach (Doublemedion694): Part 97.

(Picture by PalmArrow on the EA forum)

All of two pictures so far, but still used. What Cladbridge is to rural England, Glendonnach is to Highland Scotland: too spot on to be believed.

Corrected the spelling on the placename as to what it would look like today – Doublemedion took the name from GlenDronach whisky (the hamlet of Forgue it’s distilled in looks nowhere near as good as Glendonnach, by the way).

Also, the following ‘sets’ were made up and used on Finlander Armiel’s Builder’s Island DIY (please do not download the stolen upload by DeviantArt bumnugget PsychoNani57 on the EA forum).

Part 41 to 42 and 47: the confrontation between Moryrie and Reesaroo with the quadruple-crossing Gabriel Vigmed in the bell tower of Moonlight Falls’ Commonwealth Court.

Part 67: The Dalek Call Centre For EA Customer Services.

Part 70-72: The whole Pantheon of Boolprop sequence was done in a 50 by 50 lot split into the large Andornoticon, a corridor where all we had to do was change the wallpaper and decorations to make each look ‘different’, and the ‘private interview room’ where Cororon and Gregorina had such an informative, instructive time together.

So that’s twenty one worlds in total, and we’ve still got Al Simhara to come …